1. Ford rehires 'gray beard' engineers after AI falls short (techcrunch.com)
"Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence ... that would produce a high-quality product.”
2. Examining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle's I/O Processor (www.righto.com)
3. DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Figuring out how it went missing.
4. Build Yourself Flowers (vickiboykis.com)
Living and working in a world of generated code.
5. The US Used to Demand the Best Tech. Now We Ban It (www.pcmag.com)
6. The Shape of the System - Engineering for Bounded Cognition (shapeofthesystem.com)
The mind that builds software is far smaller than the software it builds, and almost everything good in engineering is a way of living with that gap.
7. Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs (github.com)
A single Bash script to create blogs. Download, run, write, done! - cfenollosa/bashblog
8. Wayfinder Router: deterministic routing of queries between local and hosted LLM (github.com)
Simple CLI tool for deterministic routing of queries between local and hosted LLM models - itsthelore/wayfinder-router
9. More evidence of life on Mars but still no life (www.cbc.ca)
10. The Cost Yagni Was Never About – By Kent Beck (newsletter.kentbeck.com)
11. Do Babies Dream of Baby Sheep? (devz.cl)
12. Space Shuttle Endeavour's 20-story vertical display (californiasciencecenter.org)
13. California legislature agrees to upload driver's licenses to national database (papersplease.org)
14. Austria Lobbies EU to Host Anthropic After US Access Curbs (www.bloomberg.com)
16. Regular expressions that work "everywhere" (www.johndcook.com)
What regular expression features work everywhere. Very few unless you relax your definition of "everywhere."
17. Turning music into a chore is how I became a musician (the.scapegoat.dev)
In the summer of 2020, I took a 3 months sabbatical in order to finish an album. The experience deeply transformed how I make music – I now know I can make ...
18. Show HN: QR code renderer in a TrueType font (qr.jim.sh)
19. The MUMPS 76 Primer – anniversary edition (github.com)
A faithful implementation of the 1976 MUMPS standard plus some DEC MUMPS-11 Extensions - rochus-keller/MUMPS
20. Ancient Tablets Show Markets Worked 4k Years Before Economists Explained Them (thedailyeconomy.org)
Clay tablets unearthed in Asia Minor reveal a sophisticated commercial order emerging spontaneously nearly four thousand years before economists explained h ...
21. Reflections on Software Engineering in the Age of AI (adiamond.me)
For those of you who don’t know, when I’m not writing novels, I spend my days as a software engineer, writing code. The software industry these days relies heavily on artificial intelligence. Because it has studied trillions of lines of publicly accessible source code, because code solves problems with testable right and wrong solutions, and because code is structured specifically to be understood by computers, AI has gotten very good at writing code.
22. Show HN: Bash4LLM+ – A lightweight, dependency-free Bash wrapper for LLM APIs (github.com)
Bash-first wrapper for Groq’s OpenAI-compatible API. Secure, portable, Termux-friendly. - kamaludu/bash4llm
23. A stray "j" ruined my evening (napkins.mtmn.name)
24. Set Up Your Own DoH Service (nochan.net)
25. Show HN: NanoEuler – GPT-2 scale model in pure C/CUDA from scratch (github.com)
GPT-2-style LLM built from scratch in C/CUDA with hand-written backprop, BPE tokenizer, FlashAttention, pretraining, and SFT. - JustVugg/nanoeuler
27. Bringing Swift to the Apple ][ (yeokhengmeng.com)
Swift is the modern programming language behind many apps that run on modern Apple platforms. I thought it would be nice to bring a small taste of it back to Apple’s early days, the Apple II. It was Apple’s first mass-market series of machines, initially released in 1977 with a 1 MHz MOS 6502 CPU.
I built SwiftII, a Swift-flavored mini development environment for the original Apple II to a IIe and up.
I built SwiftII, a Swift-flavored mini development environment for the original Apple II to a IIe and up.
28. Linux Kills Strncpy (smist08.wordpress.com)
Introduction The C string library is compact, fast and efficient. However, if not used correctly and carefully, it leads to buffer overrun errors which either cause programs to crash or worse allow…
29. Do LLMs pass the mirror test? (blog.pascalschuster.de)
It's likelier than you think! ...maybe.